Judi Keen
Listening & Speaking
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(Note: You will need either RealMedia, Read Audio or Windows Media software on your computer in order to use many of these sites.)
English On-Line has several sites for listening practice. All of them have exercises and materials at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
- audio: http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/audio.htm
- video: http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/video.htm
- songs: http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/songs.htm
- dictations: http://cla.univ-fcomte.fr/english/sites/dictations.htm
“Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab” has listening activities on many topics at the intermediate and advanced levels. http://www.esl-lab.com/
“The Internet TESL Journal” has dozens of links to listening activities at all levels. The site also has a link so that you can download software that is sometimes necessary.
http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Listening/
“ManyThings” has intermediate and advanced activities so that you can listen to on your computer or download a podcast.
- Voice of America at: http://www.manythings.org/voa/rss/
- Dictation quizzes at: http://www.manythings.org/fq/d1/
- Pronunciation practice at: at http://www.manythings.org/pp/
Caroline Brown's Listening Lessons has 14 listening exercises on different topics. Each exercise has pre-listening vocabulary, questions and answers. http://www.carolinebrownlisteninglessons.com/oxford/menu.php
If you have Real Audio on your computer, there are many sites where you can practice your listening skills on different topics:
Science
News
Sports
Literature
Radio
This is a Manila site.